Счастливый Праздник лодок-драконов

Счастливый Праздник лодок-драконов

The Dragon Boat Festival, the 5th day of the 5th month in the Chinese lunar calendar, has had a history of more than 2,000 years. It is usually in June in the Solar calendar.

Today, Dragon Boat Festival in the Chinese people is still a very popular grand festival. Country attaches great importance to the protection of intangible cultural heritage, 

May 20, 2006, the State Council approved the inclusion of the folk first batch of national intangible cultural heritage.

Dragon Boat Festival is one the very classic traditional festivals, which has been celebrated since the old China.

Firstly,it is to in honor of the great poet Qu Yuan,who jumped into the water and ended hislife for loving the country.Nowadays, different places have different ways to 

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Zong zi

A very popular dish during the Dragon Boat festival is Zong zi. This tasty dish consists of rice dumplings with meat,peanut egg yolk or other fillings wrapped in bamboo leaves.The tradition of Zong zi is meantto Remind us of the village fishermen scattering rice across the water of theMi Low river in order to appease the river.

dragons so the they would not devour Qu Yuan.

where the local people paddled boats out first to retrieve his body and then to scare the fish away, which is said to be the origin of the Dragon Boat Festival.

Until today ,as a celebration of the festival, the dragon boat racing is still held- a number of dragon-shaped boats row forward in cadence with a drumbeat competing to reach the finish. It's quite a spectacle with colorful boats and thousands of audience cheering along the riversides.